Deborah Foreman

April Fool's Day
$9.98
Well they already covered Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine's Day, why not April Fool's Day? This is actually one of the more fun and memorable entries of the 80's slasher craze, and one of the better who-dunnit themed ones as well.

Muffy, the rich girl everyone wants to be friends with, has invited a group of college classmates out to her lake cottage for a weekend. However a weekend of fun and relaxation takes a turn for the worst when some people start disappearing and Muffy begins acting a bit odd. Once they start stumbling upon the bodies of the missing persons, the rest of the party-goers struggle to escape the cottage and the un-named culprit behind it all.

One of the best things about April Fool's Day is that it has a bit of a Friday the 13-ish vibe to it, which was a much better movie than this. Coincidentally it also stars Amy Steele of Friday the 13th, Part 2. The characters aren't the best acted or the most likable, but at the same time they aren't quite as disposable as most slasher movie characters are. There's a little gore, the music score isn't bad...Overall a decent slasher, nothing too out of the ordinary or groundbreaking. To me, the cheesy ending hurt the movie more than it helped.

Also recommended: Friday the 13th Uncut (Deluxe Edition),My Bloody Valentine.

Valley Girl
$2.99
A great coming of age film. Stars a young Nickolas Gage. It got the usual pretty girl and the guy from the "wrong side of the tracks", but it is carried off well. The music soundtrack is dead on the money. It is a great re-visit to the 80s in music, dress, vocabulary, etc. A lot of fun, worth it. A great movie to show kids today what it was like back in the day.

Valley Girl
$14.98
A great coming of age film. Stars a young Nickolas Gage. It got the usual pretty girl and the guy from the "wrong side of the tracks", but it is carried off well. The music soundtrack is dead on the money. It is a great re-visit to the 80s in music, dress, vocabulary, etc. A lot of fun, worth it. A great movie to show kids today what it was like back in the day.

My Chauffeur
$9.98
I enjoyed this cute romantic comedy when it came out in the '80s, but I hadn't seen it for quite a while. One thing I really enjoyed this time around was the banter between the drivers in the break room. I thought it was execellent characterization of a bunch of old men who have been working together forever, and have long ago established the patterns of how they discuss/argue about things. (It probably struck me this time since I'm quite a bit older that I was when I first saw the video, and have been working with some of my coworkers for over 20 years--30 in one case.)

Deborah Foreman is cute and perky and feisty, and a lot of fun.

And the video has one of my favorite seduction scenes. ("Well, try something else!") You'll have to watch it.

Lynn G